[OS X TeX] Selecting Textual Part of a Line wo Carriage Return

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Mon Aug 2 20:08:41 EDT 2010


On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> 
> On Aug 2, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> Well, here's another thing... assuming you are using the OgreKit Find Panel.
>> 
>> First click at the starting point. Cmf-F and in the find box put
>> 
>> [^\n]*
>> 
>> which means select everything from here up to the next newline. Press return and it should do the correct selection. From then on all you need to do is click at the start of the selection and use Cmd-G to select to the newline.
> 
> Yes, that is it!   (You just omitted to tell me to check "Regular expressions". )
> 

Howdy,

I have that checked all the time so I didn't think of it. :-)

>> One hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard.
> 
> Indeed. The only thing is that I must not miss the starting point and mindless repetition helping ...
> 
> Very grateful regards
> --schremmer

It's mindless repetition that gets one into trouble.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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